Trips & Reports 2010

Well, the plan was to do Vulcun route, however this seems be a less than sensible option after the Christmas food! A small hole in the grass to the left of Thornbers entrance marks Dawsons entrance. Once inside the entrance, a small crawl to the left leadd to Vulcun. It was narrow, it was then a the S-bend that I has thoughts about getting stuck. Once past this I saw the passage narrowing ahead - with a left hand bend at... read more

On a cold winter day with snow covering the Northern hills that my heart calls home, Leika and I made our way up the fell towards the frost bitten trees that dress the aged brow of Marble Steps. The familiar view across England and out to the coast from here bore a steely grimace as the country felt the full grip of the almighty chill. Marble Steps Pot can drain a massive amount of water in wet weather but on... read more

we chose to do the North West route, which s a direct route straight down the overhanging wall of the shaft to the top of the final pitch in a glorious 70meter hang. Looking over the ledge the view was un-believable, after passing one the most thrilling rebelays the descent begins properly, soon the walls drop away and theres nowhere to hide from the gripping exposure. Descending through a spectacular jungle scene you leave the hanging gardens and continue down... read more

The Briscoe disco legs returned for this one

Yet another triumph in my mission to not do alum as many times as possible

I wasn\'t around for the less fun part, instead I ended up doing the top to the head of the traverse four times to keep warm. I think that equates to a caving trip?

Hard 2 for having 2 tackle sacks on the way out :)

Rowten was full, as were most caves that we had ropes for so we made the walk of shame to Yordas but it was too wet so we explored the main chamber before wandering over to do Valley

The tide marks in the main chamber were another example to show that snow melt really shouldn\'t be underestimated. There had been a 2-foot deep lake in there very recently. I\'d never actually been in Yordas before though so it was fun to have a brief explore, more so doing it in normal clothes. However I discovered that my non-caving wellies are really not very waterproof :(

Brown Hill Pot claims another victim - who will next \'do a brown hill\'? ;)

awesome trip, definitely want to go back and get to the bottom!

Water levels were significantly higher than when I was in Valley Entrance 2 weeks before. Previously dry sections before the pitch now involved wading through (ice cold) crotch deep water. The Master Cave itself was certainly \"sporting\", and the tide marks and debris above head height confirm that it\'s definitely not a place you want to be when its in flood...

Well...at least we went caving :) Actually, it was kinda cool, although the stoopy entrance rivals the bar pot \"drunken stagger\" for discrimination against tall people

A chance for luke to beat up unsuspecting members of the public.... :p

Typical CHECC faff, where both the team and cave changed several times through the day... After recruiting some lovely folk from Exeter (after being messed around something chronic by one of the other clubs), we headed off to Bull Pot Farm for a little jaunt round Wretched Rabbit, though got to the roman road to find it pretty hairy to say the least - the gritters clearly hadn\'t made it this far. We didnt even attempt to get up the hill... read more

Sweet Trip. Our original plan had been for Marble Steps, but a group of 9 already in the cave put an end to that plan. Instead we reshuffled ropes and headed across the frozen ground for Ireby. We had split into 2 teams, to allow Chad time to rig, reaching the cave at around 1pm. When we got to the first traverse we found 2 ropes already in place. Chad raced ahead rigging, got to maybe the second or third pitch... read more

Would have been a 5 for fun, but I had the worst hangover ever.

My best trip down aquamole so far, good team spirit and a fun day out made it very enjoyable. Once again, I loved the bottom pitch, a classic.

A classic adventure trip, one of the best!

Very nearly gained a faff 5 - only just missed out because we did actually get (part way) down Sell Gill - eventually! When we arrived the dry route already had 2 teams just about to descend, so we made the decision to walk up and do Calf Holes instead. After about 20 mins of walking, we met a cave rescue guy who asked where we were going and was shocked at my reply - apparently Calf Holes was 2... read more

For the people doing the wet route it was not as bad. We arrived at the cave quite quickly and after some confusion with other teams being down the dry route, we headed off down the wet route with me rigging. After some interesting swinging round corners and adam racing round a rock pillar :P we zoomed down. The whole rigging process was fun (even if i did winge and bitch alot :P). Overall it was effecient for us... read more

Hillarious

greatest team of cavers acompanyed by drink, cake and fireworks ... what could possibly go wrong

faff 4 for not actually finding everyone else and going back to drink lots of tea :)

County is definatly one of our better freshers\' tips, exciting streamways and waterfalls, fun little climbs and loads of potential to make it as long or short as desired, easilly laddered aswell. All the faff was, as usuall, on the surface.

Immense faff both before and after the trip due to separate car-related incidents. With Andy having destroyed his headlights and so needing to drive back to York before it got dark, I was left as the only one who knew my way round County, and hence became trip leader by default. After we finally got underway, things went pretty smoothly. Rigging took a bit of time, as I had never rigged a ladder before so was kind of making it up... read more